Ask any football fan which club is the pride of London, you will hear them choose either Arsenal or Chelsea. There are over 10 London clubs in England. Why is the pride of London limited to just 2 football clubs.

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Pride of London has been a long fought battle between Chelsea and Arsenal supporters. Each supporters claim there team is the better team and thus deserves the title.

Now let us look at who truly deserves be the pride of London. Many criterias will be looked into. Playing style, Total titles won will be looked into.

There are 11 football teams from London and 6 currently plays in the Elite Premiership.

Westham, Crystal palace, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Fulham, Brentford, Afc Wimbledon, Queens Park Rangers, Charlton athletic, and Millwall are football clubs based in London. Westham, Crystal palace, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Fulham, currently plays in the premier league.

Playing style/pattern

When you look at the teams, little can be said about others that play in the lower divisions of the English premier league. However, for those in the Premier league, Arsenal and Tottenham currently play the best football. Tottenham with their attacking football under Pochettino have dazzled the premiership and footballing world. Arsenal since the days of Arsene Wenger are known for their possession football. Arsenal under Wenger are known for their beautiful passing game that is only rivalled by Manchester side Manchester city. It is hoped that current coach Unai Emery can continue this. The blues Chelsea don't really have a pattern of football. having about 5 different coaches in the last 10 years shows that each coach era has different style of football which means inconsistency. Antonio Conte came and ushered in the now famous 3-4-3 formation. Now there is Sarri who is known as a coach who loves Attacking football. Other teams such as Westham, Crystal palace, Fulham don;t have a playing style. They are mostly defensive since they are an average team trying to survive the rigorous English premier league.

Titles won

This is the main classification. This is where most supporters claim their bragging rights. Here we would be considering the titles won by each team and tend to score them starting from the most important to the less important cups.

  1. The Champions league will be worth 20 points
  2. The Premier league will be worth 15 points
  3. The Europa league will be worth 15 points
  4. The Fa cup will be worth 10 points
  5. The Club world cup will be worth 5 points
  6. The Uefa super cup will be worth 5 points
  7. The England league cup will be worth 5 points
  8. The community shield will be worth 2 points

Now let us look at how each club ranks

  1. Arsenal have 13 premier league 13 Fa cup 2 League cup 14 community shield which gives 363 points
  2. Chelsea have 6 premier league 8 Fa cup 5 League cup 4 community shield 1 champions league 1 europa league 1 Uefa super cup which gives 243 points
  3. Tottenham have 2 premier league 8 Fa cup 4 league cup 7 community shield 2 europa league which gives 174 points
  4. Westham have 3 Fa cup 1 community shield which gives 32 points
  5. Charlton athletic have 1 Fa cup which gives 10 points
  6. AFC wimbledon have 1 Fa cup which gives 10 points
  7. Queens Park Rangers have 1 League cup which gives 5 points
  8. Fulham, Brentford, Milwall, and Crystal palace all have zero trophies. 
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From this it can easily be seen that Arsenal is the best club in London and therefore deserves the title Pride of London. However, you are free to give reasons why you may think Arsenal does not deserve it or not.

Is it Arsenal with the trophies, the unbeaten record or Chelsea the champions league winner or Tottenham the attacking football team.